United 2009 Elite Choice Year End Rewards

By: Ben Schlappig

Published: September 9, 2009

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What beats getting something you weren’t expecting for free? I’d argue nothing. Well, United is once again following American in offering “year end” Elite Choice Rewards, which are based on your status as of December 31, 2009. All the details can be found here, but basically there are some pretty nice rewards which can be earned in addition to the normal elite choice options. If you cross 125,000 elite qualifying miles you get either two extra systemwide upgrades, a fee waiver of the fee for the Chase card which gets you Red Carpet Club access, or 25,000 bonus redeemable miles.

While this isn’t as generous as American’s offer (which allows you to choose two of those options), it’s pretty darn good! Now if only they’d offer special rewards for 200,000 EQM’s, 300,000 EQM’s, etc., I’d be an even happier camper. 😉

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Matthew Guest

December 30, 2009, 5:25 pm

Just so I am sure, we won't have these choices until after the new year, right? I surpassed 125K long before this promotion was announced and never received an e-mail from UA. I'd hate to fall victim to the 30-day rule!

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bmvaughn Guest

September 15, 2009, 8:41 am

Still struggling to decide whether to go with 2 SWU (since I will already have 12) or the 25k RDM... hmm...

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lucky New Member

September 11, 2009, 9:59 am

@ Sam -- Yes you do. This is in addition to the old elite choice options.

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sam Guest

September 11, 2009, 2:36 am

so what happened to the old elite choice. Do i still get 25,000 miles at 175,000 eqms?

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lucky New Member

September 10, 2009, 6:44 pm

@ MatthewLAX -- Yeah, quite tempting. I already got 25,000 RDM's from the 175K elite choice, so 50,000 miles for free would be pretty awesome! @ Hunter -- Good strategy in general, although be sure you don't leave us at United! I actually think you'll be more tempted to fly Continental instead of flying United and crediting to Continental, given that you'd get upgrades on Continental a good portion of the time, while on United you wouldn't be earning lifetime miles, 500'ers, etc., from your flights credited to Continental. The Continental program is definitely more tempting now that they have international first class redemption options, in my opinion. @ whakojacko -- Indeed, 15,000 free RDM is nice, although you know you really should go for 1K. ;) @ Absolut1377 -- Let me keep that a surprise for now. Let's just say it's a race between my 21st birthday and million miler. @ Pat -- Yeah, seriously. It is kind of interesting that they have crazy awesome awards for going a quarter over the status level, but those of us going two, three, or even four times further get nothing special. I guess it's a function of American not offering anything....

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